Poetry by Tim Windisch

The second half of your century Coming down off the mountain, your smile at my side Right where it’s been since we started our family ride A good deal of your first half, but I wonder what will theadventure be As we celebrate the beginning of the second half of yourcentury Sharing special days together replaces the idea ofexchanging gifts In fact any time spent with friends and family provides muc...

Busted menagerie It’s not fair to call me stupid I think my problem’s I’m too nice I blame it all on that dude cupid Got me think wedding bells and rice Every time I go off and fall in love again I end up lost, in tears all alone and broke And that so called lady is nowhere in sight From the outside I’m sure it’s a real good joke But on the inside it’s another sleepless night Alone in tears ain’t...

That to me is fine Stretched beyond the limit, like a guitar string about to snap Wearing a grin, trying to look relaxed and lay down a little dap I’m all good, not a care in the world; but I feel as if it’s all going to blow Lock me in a padded room, gather the white coats; it’s time for the show Disasters like a well healed pet seem to follow me most everywhere Like I’ve a two foot toilet paper...

Bring me a ray of sunshine Can’t seem to stand up tall Seems the more I try the harder I fall Sometimes I wonder why I don’t just quit But if I promise my life the guarantee is legit I cry and scream at the walls I pound my fist How many more days till I no longer exist The time has come for you to take the lead It’s the only way we’re ever going to succeed I’m begging you please to be everything...

Dreams Days bled, nights dragged Felt dead, ever after lagged Never arriving at my door Words spoke, void of action Sick joke, still no satisfaction Always wanting something more Silence of gold, lies wrapped in tears Story’s old, alone I stand when it clears Vanished without a trace Pain stays, companion not of choice Memory plays, sound of your voice Dreams the only time I see your face Tim Wind...

Not easy to take Hard to imagine, not easy to take Crushing being apart from you when I wake No words, no sound, nothing but silence Tears flood my memories, I abhor violence No one to kill, no screams or thrashing Just dreams of ago, constantly flashing Could’ve been, such a sickening thought Like an empty water bottle in a drought Holds the promise of great relief Empty like my arms brings me gr...

She waters the flowers She waters the flowers I could watch her for hours Seems I’m perpetually under her powers She breathes out a loving sigh So many rainbows across my sky Tells me that forever I will be her guy I’m so high I can touch the moon Cause my woman makes my heart swoon In dreams we’re drifting into the sunset in a hot air balloon She waters the flowers I could hold her for hours Fina...

Who’ll be the first of us Who’ll be the first of us to crack Harsh words a struggle to walk back  “I seen ya!” caught red-handed at the fest Memories from so long ago but I love them best Brothers from different mothers, a motley crew Harley mini-bikes in the fields just me and you Who’ll be the first of us to break down Tossing arms, hugging no matter who’s around Too many evenings racing the str...

Vibin’ on life Stretched out and cracked open my eyes Light bleeding through darkened skies Not the way to start out with a big smile on my face But I made a new acquaintance so it’s not the case Lights up my phone with a lovely hello Vibin’ on life, laughing, but it’s early you know You have to have somewhere to fit your feet in the blocks Run the race, clear the hurdles to find someone who rocks...

How How can I draw another breath? Imagine anything better than death Beaten down and barely able to lift my head In so many ways I feel  I’m already dead You say you love me, yet the pain grows stronger Cause every time you say it, the time’s grown longer Since you laid your head upon my bare chest Lips pressed to my face, “Bear I love you best” So many months have ran by since that day My head,...

Just forget her Trippin’ on a time that brought a smile Fit like a glove but I guess they went out of style Or you found a better fit out on your own Either way I spend too much time all alone When the good times rolled wasn’t anything better Now it seems it’s high time to just forget her Eyes that used to melt me have eroded all my trust The gears of the engine driving the love turned to rust Blo...

Broken promises Too many days, and far too many nights Haunted by images that gave me the frights Stand before me with your fresh wounds on display Obscure the truth leave me with nothing to say I’m not convinced and you’re no God and I’m not one of the doubting Thomas’s I’m just the man who’s been here choking on all your plastic promises Year after year you flashed me your smiles I sat alone whi...

Let’s Let’s watch the flames, we can listen to the game Sit with me tonight under the stars and gaze Torch and smile at things, favorite songs we both sing Everything’s better together laughin’ as we blaze Let’s head back to the couch, I got the blanket grab the pouch Get rollin’ and smoochin’ and all kinds of close I step back in moonlight by the window, taken by the way your eyes glow A wondrous...

There once burned a fire Back at the very beginning, when it seemed that they were winning Long before he knew her only devotion was pledged to sinning A hunger she passed as passion, took them so high till it went crashing Her need for love was a veiled ruse for cash to keep her in fashion Where once sat a cauldron filled with love One he used to believe came from above Just a cracked broken pot...

Back on 175 Most of us could see the steeple from our yards Our parents bowled together, or maybe played cards St. Anthony’s in Fussville, though names and buildings changed And the fields we roamed have been plowed over and rearranged I remember us looking out in awe,  watching the big earth movers drive Widening Appleton Ave when we were growing up going to school back on 175 We skinned knees pl...

Dreaming out loud How’d you sleep last night? Did you have any dreams? I’d love to see you smile in the morning light Watch your lips turn up in the suns beams I’m just daydreaming about you Imagining things we could do Walking in the rain, laughing at a cloud I should keep it inside but I’m dreaming out loud Did you awake to the sun or was it a bark? I hope it wasn’t a silly text that came from m...

What’s left I’m working the left trying to do what’s right Left-handed, left brained but left wondering why One nation with liberty, but they just seem to fight Poor huddled masses might as well not try We shoot down boats, ideas, dreams and hope Knock down institutions, build monuments to a false god Fault his logic dumacrat and you’re labeled a dope While the bloviated narcissistic rants, the re...

Tearing down my past I almost drove straight into the ditch Uttered a barely audible son-of-a-bitch To no one in particular Another golden page from a better long gone day Dismantled and razed cause they have to make way Tears are falling in my car My whole family was a part of this place Those folks always had a smile on their face Downtown Fussville farm While progress creates many pretty things...

Watchin the skyline back at the ranch   So many moons have revolved Since our friendships evolved Back when silly was funny Thunderstorms were sunny Watchin the skyline back at the ranch Bikes and cars long before the bars In the fields underneath the stars Knew nothing so we had no cares Laughter, dancing while the radio blares Watchin the skyline back at the ranch Ride that raft down the raging...

Bedtime banter Another day draws to a close, my tired eyes tell me it’s time The farmer plants, then reaps what he sows; toss on steaks, mix Mules, don’t skip the lime There’s smiles somewhere waiting to turn up my cheek, pull the edges of my mouth towards the sun Might not be tomorrow, might not even be next week, but I have a feeling that on my horizon is a boatload of fun Well we don’t always u...

Sense of direction Another too chilly, ugly kind of day Okay for March, but it’s getting late May I’m listening to the sounds, favorites from my old music collection But this cold air and gray skies are messing with my senseof direction Rather than get dejected, I just say okay Put on something to soothe me imagining you rendering someaffection A better day will peak across Lake Michigan one morn...

Put a shine on that coin Walking along, head hanging low Becoming all too familiar you know Supposed to learn and most of all be patient Pick a dirty penny from the ground Parties all over I listen to the sound I can hear the music, and I feel the vibration   Smiles and laughs but I never do join Closed my eyes, wished, and put a shine on that coin Sometimes the road gets bad and you’re stuck Seem...

Still I will not curse her name So many days I wrote of hopes and dreams, only to learn itwas all just a charade Upside down where nothings as it seems, until I’m cold Iwill regret everything I paid Were it only money siphoned across our time, one day bygrace of God I could recoup Inside my mind is the scene of the crime, and it plays adnauseum on an endless loop Still I will not curse her name, n...

Maybe I’m already gone Have I left my body, am I no longer part of this earth I may be broke but money ain’t the way to judge a man’sworth But I feel like I’m invisible in what I thought was mybaby’s eyes Not feeling the love this man just sits alone and cries Maybe I’m already gone Never to know another dawn Cause I’m not wanting to see anymore Not until I see her coming through my door I don’t w...

Evil from top to bottom It was nothing real, a grand scheme from the start All you have left for your troubles is a broken heart Call it what you will but no matter what, it is sad Everything you believed was true but you were just had Cry the blues and scream and throw things and swear It won’t change a thing and it sure won’t make her care Evil from top to bottom straight through Smile as you tw...